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demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …
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Public debate on immigration focuses on its effects on wages and employment, yet the discussion typically fails to … consider the effects of immigration on working conditions that affect workers' health. There is growing evidence that …. Recent studies show that as immigration rises, native workers are pushed into less demanding jobs. Such market adjustments …
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Public debate on immigration focuses on its effects on wages and employment, yet the discussion typically fails to … consider the effects of immigration on working conditions that affect workers' health. There is growing evidence that … immigrants are more likely than natives to work in risky jobs. Recent studies show that as immigration rises, native workers are …
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, mechanically changing the average native wage in affected markets and biasing the estimated wage impact of immigration. We document … wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages. Adjusting …
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Exploiting a large French panel for 1976-2007, we examine the impact of low-educated immigration on the labour market … immigration. Low-educated immigration generally lowers the wages of blue-collar workers, but its impact is heterogeneous across …
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With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage …' skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas …
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With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage …’ skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas …
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We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives' wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very small effects on natives' wages and no dominant robust...
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